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Barbara Murphy, a nephrologist who found new techniques for predicting kidney transplant outcomes, died on June 30 at the age of 56. The New York Times reports that Murphy’s husband, Peter Fogarty, confirmed glioblastoma as the cause of death.
Born in Ireland on October 15, 1964, Murphy attended medical school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, graduating in 1989. She remained in the city for an internship and fellowship at Beaumont Hospital, where she focused on clinical nephrology. She then moved to the United States for a nephrology postdoc position at Harvard University.
In 1997, she began working at Mount Sinai Health Systems in New York City as the director of transplant nephrology at the Icahn School of Medicine. In 2003, she became chief of the nephrology division. Within a decade, she had accepted a position as the director of the school’s ...
